CASH ON DELIVERY

posted on December 7th, 2015 at 7:35 PM by Steven Stanley

The words “Oh what a tangled web we weave” have rarely been truer than they are about out-of-work landlord Eric Swan, whose multiple attempts to deceive the British Department Of Social Security are about to be found out in Michael Cooney’s side-splitting farce Cash On Delivery, now getting a sensationally performed big-stage revival at the El Portal Theatre, directed by (and co-starring) none other than Cooney’s celebrated playwright dad Ray.
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A VERY DIE HARD CHRISTMAS

posted on December 6th, 2015 at 11:54 PM by Steven Stanley

One of America’s most beloved holiday movie classics is back … and live on stage in Theatre Unleashed’s West Coast Premiere of Josh Carson’s A Very Die Hard Christmas, the Bruce Willis megasmash as seen through a Saturday Night Live lens, with puppets and songs thrown in for hilarious measure.
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GUYS AND DOLLS

posted on December 6th, 2015 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

“Fresh” and “new” are probably not the first words that spring to mind when you think about the 65-year-old Broadway classic Guys And Dolls, that is unless the Guys And Dolls you’re thinking about is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival revival now wowing audiences at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

RIO HONDO

posted on December 5th, 2015 at 11:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Earlier this year in their brilliantly spoofy Entropy, playwright Bill Robens and Theatre Of NOTE managed somehow to stage a gazillion-dollar Hollywood space-travel epic inside a 40something-seat theater. Robens and NOTE now work the same magic on that most American of movie genres—the Western—in their World Premiere comedy Rio Hondo, to my knowledge the very first L.A. theater production presented “in CinemaStage” and one that no horse opera lover will want to miss.
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PERFECT TIMING

posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 6:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Audiences in search of a perfectly marvelous time at the theater could hardly make a more perfect choice than the latest from Theatre 40, Kristi Kane’s Perfect Timing, a play so perfectly delightful that you’d expect it had run a decade or more on London’s West End and not a mere six months in Van Nuys way back in the mid-80s before fading into unjust obscurity.
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LET IT SNOW!

posted on November 30th, 2015 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley

Steve and Eydie fans, particularly those of the gay male persuasion, can bless the day that Tod Macofsky and Christopher Graham gave birth to Mack Diamond and Poppy Fields, aka “America’s Best Least-Known Lounge Act,” whose holiday extravaganza Let It Snow! arrived just in time to entertain a couple of delighted audiences at Silver Lake’s Cavern Club Celebrity Theatre.
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A GOOD FAMILY

posted on November 29th, 2015 at 10:56 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

A charge of rape lodged against their college student son casts a pall over a Midwestern American couple’s Christmas Eve celebration in A Good Family, Marja-Lewis Ryan’s World Premiere drama that combines several of the elements that made her award-winning One In The Chamber a critical/popular hit last year—crisp writing, outstanding acting, edge-of-your-seat suspense—yet feels incomplete, and not simply for its hour-and-change running time.
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WOOD BOY DOG FISH

posted on November 29th, 2015 at 10:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Imagine Walt Disney’s Pinocchio had Tim Burton been in creative charge and opted for a live-action 99-seat Los Angeles theater staging rather than an animated film and you’ll have some idea of what to expect in Wood Boy Dog Fish, Rogue Artists Ensemble and Bootleg Theatre’s deliciously dark-and-twisted take on Carlo Collodi’s classic childhood tale.
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